Fagauvea

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Fagauvea is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on the island of Ouvéa in New Caledonia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Fagauvea canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oceanic language
Polynesian outlier language
closelyRelatedTo East Uvean
Wallisian
coexistsWithLanguage French
Iaai
New Caledonian French
country New Caledonia
hasAlternativeName Faga Uvea
Uvean of Ouvéa
linked to: Ouvéa Uvean

West Uvean
linked to: Ouvéa Uvean
hasContactInfluenceFrom French
Iaai
hasDomainUsage home
local community
oral tradition
hasLanguageCodeISO639-3 uve
hasLinguisticFeature inclusive-exclusive distinction in first person plural
possessive classifiers
preposed articles
pronominal number distinctions
hasMorphologicalType analytic
isolating
hasPhonologicalFeature simple consonant inventory
typical Polynesian vowel system
hasSociolinguisticSituation intergenerational transmission under pressure
language shift toward French
hasWordOrder SVO
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn New Caledonia
isPolynesianOutlierLanguage true
isSubjectOfField Oceanic linguistics
linked to: Oceanic languages

Polynesian linguistics
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian
languageGroup Polynesian
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian
overarchingState France
region Loyalty Islands
spokenByEthnicGroup Ouvéa islanders
Polynesian community of Ouvéa
spokenIn France
New Caledonia
Ouvéa
linked to: Ouvéa Island
spokenOnIsland Ouvéa
linked to: Ouvéa Island
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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